It was only a matter of time before cult schizo-rappers Insane Clown Posse and rock baron Jack White collaborated to cover Mozart, and now, finally, the end result is here! No, but seriously, this happened. Jack White produced it and JEFF the Brotherhood plays as the backing band. Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J engage in a ribald discussion — “I heard Mozart was deaf!” “Def as in dope?” — where they surmise that Mozart’s “underground” hit “Leck Mich Im Arsch” translates to “Like My Ass.” Seriously, I couldn’t even make this up, and I’m really good at making stuff up. I better let you at it. There might be a lot of explaining to do. It’s out on White’s Third Man Records in a couple of weeks.

And here’s the video teaser for the song from Third Man’s official YouTube channel.

You can check out the full press release below, but I’m not sure it will help…

In the grand tradition of peanut butter meeting Iggy’s chest or Bing Crosby getting down with David Bowie, Third Man Records is ecstatic to present the latest in a long-line of unexpected musical pairings…Insane Clown Posse and Mozart.

Back in ’82, ahem, 1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a piece that’s been left out of the spotlight ever since. The title of the piece is “Leck Mich Im Arsch” or literally translated to English as “Lick me in the arse.” Understandably this piece has figuratively been swept under the rug. So who better to give this piece it’s due respect than the wildly successful, much misunderstood, and divisive Southwest Detroit rappers Insane Clown Posse?

With fellow Southwest Detroit-born Jack White at the production helm and musical backing by Nashville’s very own Jeff the Brotherhood, this 2011 version of “Leck Mich Im Arsch” marries Mozart’s melody (and lyrics sung in operatic German) with ICP’s poignant lyrical addition in English and Jeff the B’s monster-riffs, letting the whole thing tie together in the most beautiful of ways.

The b-side “Mountain Girl” finds Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope telling tall tales about a shotgun wedding, meth problems and moonshine…all pretty common-fare for a twangy country song birthed in Nashville.

The 7″ single and iTunes digital download of “Leck Mich Im Arsch” will be available for sale on September 13th. One-hundred Tri-color versions of the single will be available from the Third Man Rolling Record Store at the MI Fest in Brooklyn, Michigan on September 17th and another 50 Tri-colors will be randomly inserted into mail orders dispatched by Third Man Records.

Jack White jumps the shark. How many more of these nonsense publicity stunts do we have to pay attention to? This is the musical equivalent of streaking naked during a high school softball game. Yes, Jack. We remember you exist. You don’t have to keep reminding us every week by releasing some crazy bullshit. Go away now. Please.

I’m pretty sure that Jack is fucking with us. This is his way of pointing out that he can do literally whatever the fuck he wants now. I can imagine Jack sitting around one day a TMR and thinking of some crazy hyperbole about the two most opposite ends of the musical spectrum coming together, then just doing it. Jack’s very pragmatic, its all about DOing something.

Doing things are good as long as that thing you did was good. This thing is shit. “Fucking with people” is the lowest form of art. ICP is the lowest form of rap. Pork roll is the lowest form of breakfast sausage.

but thats what Jack White is saying. He’s pointing out that no matter what he does, people will talk about it on the internet (which he hates). It’s not like hes gonna put ICP on the new Raconteurs album or anything.
This is just a joke

Not to say he didn’t come up with the idea, but ICP did hire Jack. It is possible that they realized jack has done things no one else could and thought he was the only one to do what they wanted on the track

Hey the duchess, I’m sorry that you’re upset about pretty harmless internet comments, and thanks for posting things from my website, but can you do me a huge favour and maybe refrain from this since it’s getting kind of personal?

D.J. Freshie, is this actually your stuff? I am seriously digging some of the arrangements and instrumentation you’ve got going on there. Your guitar tones and your use of brass are really cool, and that “Volcano” song is just a really good song.

Afraid they’re not “surmising” anything. Mozart’s love of scatological humor is well documented, both in pieces such as this one, and in his letters with friends and family. (His father, in particular.) This piece was cleaned up and expanded into “Let Us Be Glad” after his death, but beforehand, it served as one of several gross-out pieces he used to pull out at parties.

Toilet humor has a long-standing tradition in areas that we have recently come to consider the “fine arts.” Moliere, Cervantes and Chaucer and Joyce are just a few authors who have snuck poop humor into the literary canon, and Mozart wasn’t the only foul-mouthed composer by a long-shot, though his sense of humor was perhaps the most pronounced, and certainly the most notorious.

this is the biggest setback to human civilization…ever
icp has never had any integrity( coming from a guy who used to listen as a young teen) and now, jack white has thrown all his out the window. it’s a shame.

I don’t know I think Jack knows how terrible ICP are and he knows that everyone realizes they are terrible and hes just stirring the pot and probably laughing.
Not to the bank though, because theres no way in hell this song would make money.

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